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Military Testing WMD Sensors at Super Bowl

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the save-what's-left-of-detroit dept.

Lam1969 writes "Members of the Michigan National Guard will be at the Super Bowl on Sunday to deploy 'sensor fusion', a real-time, IP-based wireless technology that combines readings from portable and fixed devices that can potentially detect terrorist threats. While sensors capable of detecting chemical, biological, or radiological threats have been used at previous Super Bowls, the readings had to be communicated by radio between different security personnel. Sensor fusion automatically takes readings from the devices and uploads them to a central, secure Web server, where security staff anywhere can monitor conditions at the event. From the article: 'The software uses open standards and is open-source, based on the OSGi Service Platform, which is a standardized, component-oriented computing environment for networked services. OSGi allows networked devices to be managed from anywhere in the world, while allowing software to be installed, updated or removed on the fly while the device is operating.'"

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  1. Re:Of course... by name773 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    this is the first time i wish i still moderated :)

  2. wait... wait... by dr_labrat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You missed another important pointless buzzword:

    Synergy

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  3. Re:SuperBowl is unwatchable by mrraven · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wish I had some mode points to give you anonymous you have just described the problem not just with the Super Bowl but America in general since the Reagan era-error, that has only accelerated since 911.

    No wonder the world hates us:

    "Eleven of the 16 countries surveyed by the Pew Research Center -- Britain, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Russia, Turkey, Pakistan, Lebanon, Jordan and Indonesia -- had a more favorable view of China than the U.S.

    India and Poland were more upbeat about the U.S., while Canadians are as likely to see China favorably as they were the United States.

    The poll, which was released Thursday, found suspicion and wariness of the United States in many countries where people question the war in Iraq and are growing wary of the U.S.-led war on terror.

    "The Iraq war has left an enduring impression on the minds of people around the world in ways that make them very suspicious of U.S. intentions and makes the effort to win hearts and minds far more difficult," said Shibley Telhami, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution."

    Source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-06-23-worl d-poll_x.htm

    I far one don't welcome or new war based 1984ish (we've always been at war against Golstein Bin-Laden's east Asia) police states, "open source: secuirty sensors, or not.

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  4. Re:SuperBowl is unwatchable by el_chicano · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    In recent history Europe has never encountered a problem that they didn't attempt to appease. I don't really care what they think of the US's war on terror. Who's best interest do you really think that tehy hold? The US's or their own? As a US citizen I know which I hold.
    The United States of America used to be known as "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave". Thanks to ill-considered initiatives like the "War on Drugs" and the "War on Terror" over the last few years citizens of the U.S.A. have lost more and more of the freedoms that we used to take for granted.
     
    I think that there is delicious irony in the fact that a citizen of the U.S.A. chooses to post as an Anonymous Coward to take the Europeans to task for their alleged "appeasement". Truthfully, these days the U.S.A. should really be called the "Land of the Enslaved and Home of the Cowardly".
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